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OK, but fixed-price vendors don't kill the market. We already have fixed-price vendors for common IO's, and those have a huge throughput on the market.

I kinda like the market. It breaks up the alleged monotony, and if you only want to frankenslot you really don't need to spend much time there. I am starting to lean towards "inflation coupled with low supply" as an issue, though.

PvP balance doesn't strike me as a significant concern right now, and I somewhat disagree with the specific case of purples. (I funded an entire alt with the sale from one Apocalypse recipe!)

I would have, though. Also, being original was not the top priority here, given that the character has an established personality, power set, history, and existing costume. I imagine that being both original and "good" would get you somewhere, but "good" should have priority given the contest at hand.

So, like they said, it's all subjective.

You are really hung up on purples. o_0

(Also, I wasn't imagining this being used for Purples and PVP recipes, as that would make little sense when you can't even get them with merits. It was just an example. Mostly, though, people here are much too concerned with Purples.)


This is not always true. I've gone through the crafting badges twice, and I've seen people buy them for more than university cost on many occasions over many different level ranges and recipe types. It's not the normal pattern, but it definitely happens.

That said, the fact that they can be had for half the university's price and yet people still buy them from the university does not shoot my idea in the foot; it was actually the basis for my idea.


Seldom has a point, though. The more fluid nature of Inf probably kills my idea.

They certainly exist. It's just a matter of chance, I guess.

No, I was thinking about inflation. The Devs consider inflation an issue, and I agree. I already can and do get the recipes I want. (I've slotted 11 Luck of the Gambler globals in the past 3 months, and sold 3 more beyond that, for example.)


Because the prices at the store would cost twice as much (or more). You do realize that we can already buy basic IO recipes for influence at the Universities? Those basic IO recipes still sell like hotcakes on the market. (Heck, you can even flip some of them from the vendor--the margin isn't good, but people will often pay more on WW than the university charges you.)

Parallel builds. You have several devs working on different projects at once and merging them when they're finished with their respective sections. This occasionally means that an old bug will be reintroduced because someone failed to fully update part of what he was working on.

This is often seen and fixed, but minor bugs--like the window editing bug--sometimes slip through.

Honestly, this is so common that it isn't even funny to me any more.

Plant usually doesn't need its AoE hold (it really only helps against Nemesis and Rularuu), so I was mostly using it as a set mule when I did have it.


Aggro pretty much stops being a problem once you slot Seeds with recharge.

I was thinking he should have appeared in Ouro or RWZ. If Flower Knight, Fusionette, and Faultline deserve extra screen time, so should he.

They could also use him as a "difficulty slider" or store in Pocket D. It's annoying how they give us good stores in the other two co-op zones and no store during Spring and Winter events.

Roughly $1000 less than I would have spent sticking with console games in that same time period--which I would have.

Huh?

He died.

(Related.)


More on topic, I agree that the "phasing" runs the risk of spreading the player base even thinner. I think total replacement would be much better, even if we get a more useful team-building tool, as it actually goes the other direction by making existing players gravitate towards that zone for a little while. (Again, I'm not bothered by Samuel_Tow's objection, since there's no reason to block off old content like they do currently. Ouro is a perfect place to stick it.)

I don't think comparisons to worse games have much relevance in a discussion of the team-building mechanism. There are clear and (relatively) simple improvements that could be made, and there are larger changes that would conspicuously help.

"Hide people who are grayed out" is one of the simple ones. "Replace 'Invite to team' with 'Ask to join' if target of context menu is in team" would probably take more effort. A proper "search for teams" interface could go either way, but I suspect (regardless of Smurch's objection) that it would be quite easy--if a new "lft flag" was assigned to a team leader, such that you could search for just that flag in the current team search interface, that would basically cover it. (I also suspect that the devs could make the flag differentiate between TF's and open teams, but I'm less confident on that point.)

Ouroboros gives us a perfect way around this. The present should change, and it should happen somewhat often; those who like the old content should be free to time travel to it.

Why we can't at this point (e.g. Calvin Scott TF) boggles me, but that's not the issue here.

This is very true. In addition to what you said, there's also the problem of stagnancy in the old content; no matter how many zones are added and and no matter how full they are, the old content will still feel old. Adding Croatoa didn't make the Manticore Task Force much more interesting, and there are still teams running Manticore.

Updating old zones periodically doesn't just add new content, it does double duty by removing stale content. That, in addition to the comments about thinning out zone populations, seems a strong reason to fix things to me.

Yes. I once saw a thread that was started because the OP was genuinely furious about the CoH "consideration" system (enemy name colors) being a direct rip-off of WoW. I'm not sure how that came about; perhaps he was very gullible and someone else was having fun with him.

At any rate, this sentiment is nearly literally true.

Hilarious, I love it!

I especially like the Psyche costume, and I'm going to have to steal Numi-Numi's for one of my own characters.

This would be nice, but in the meantime, I suggest simply binding your favorite flypose to your movement keys.

Edit: In addition to the actual direction commands, of course!